Child Abuse

Browse our DVDs, articles and interviews to help you find answers on how to address the difficult issue of child abuse in psychotherapy and counseling.

Healing Childhood Abuse and Trauma through Psychodrama (2-DVD Set)

In these extremely powerful live group sessions, master clinician and psychodramatist Tian Dayton works with group participants to confront childhood abuse, and work through trauma that they are carrying in their bodies.

EARN 5.5 CREDITS

Invisible Child Abuse

by Robert Firestone

Emotional child abuse is frequently overlooked in our focus on physical and sexual abuse, often invisible to those both outside and inside the family. This film is a highly valuable resource for mental health professionals, abuse survivors and their loved ones.

EARN 3.0 CREDITS

The Abused Woman: A Survivor Therapy Approach

by Lenore Walker

Learn practical, hands-on skills to increase your confidence in helping the challenging population of victims and survivors of domestic violence--both in terms of immediate crisis management, and longer term, depth-oriented psychotherapy.

EARN 7.0 CREDITS

The Voices of Violence Series (2-DVD Set)

These videos offer an extraordinary look into the psychological causes of violence by examining the perspectives of violent offenders, and providing an inside view of two different yet dramatically successful group therapy programs offered behind bars to men who have committed the most extreme violent acts—from assault and rape to murder.

EARN 2.0 CREDITS

Child Therapy Case Consultation

by Violet Oaklander

In this live consultation, you will get a tangible sense of how Violet Oaklander works with a variety of children, while gaining practical skills to bring back to your own clients immediately.

EARN 3.0 CREDITS

Shades of Gray: When a therapist and her client are survivors of child abuse

by Lisa Cassidy

When are we far enough down the path of our own healing that we can safely go back and help someone else along? A therapist shares the story of confronting this urgent question with a traumatized client suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder.

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Family Therapy and Resistant Parents: The Child Cannot Wait

by Leon Rosenberg

When do we shift from trying to work within the parent-child relationship to seeing the child as a separate entity needing to cope with a destructive parent?

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Emotional Flashback Management in the Treatment of Complex PTSD

by Pete Walker

Pete Walker provides a convincing argument for the recognition and proper treatment of emotional flashbacks and complex PTSD, which result from childhood neglect and emotional abuse.

EARN 1.5 CREDITS

Violet Oaklander on Gestalt Therapy with Children

The founder of Gestalt therapy with children and adolescents discusses therapeutic relationship building with kids and teens, the unique rewards of introducing expressive arts therapy techniques, and the challenges of being sufficiently directive in working with children.

EARN 1.0 CREDIT